30's calculated SLOW!!!
1936 Susa had first programing.
same year guy at Harvard
Iowa state John Atanasoff
Bell Labs George Stibits PTO1
1938 1st electronic Comp.COnstructed in 1939
BTL1 Inventor: George Stibitz Builder: Bell Labs Operational: 1939 Retired: 1949 Cost: $20,000
Speed: 0.2 operations per second
Z1 Memory 64 words
Zuse
Inventor: Konrad Zuse
Builder: konrad Zuse
Operational: 1941
Retired: 1944 (Destroyed)
Cost: $6500
Speed: 0.5 operations per second
Operations hardwired. Rebuilt in 1950
ABC
Inventor: John V. Atanasoff Builders: Atanasoff and Berry Operational 1942 Cost: $7000 Size 6' x 3' x 3'
Memory: 64 50 bit words
Speed: 32 operations per second
ASCC = Automated sequence controlled calculator
Inventor: Howard Aiken builder IBM Operational: 1943 Retired: 1959 Cost $500,000 Size: 51' x 8' x 8'
SSEC
User: Wallace Eckert Builder: IBM Operational: 1948
Memory 160 digits Speed 50 multiplications